| Show FIGHT AT NEK Gr Account of the Battle Bailie WhIch Brought Dimer to the BrUsh British Wort orIc Ohi of 01 time the Correspondence ot of the London Dec from Ish and soldiers fighting In the Transvaal and description from war correspondents that Itter Into print through the malls mails teem with thrilling and 11 incidents Writ WritIng Writing Ing to his mother a young oung ot of the wounded In one or of orthe the Limo first engagements relates that thit white he III hay at night on the hillside expecting to tile dlo bleeding from a wound In his hili thigh and shivering with cold there thero stumbled over Oer hint a or of 10 company n named Rogers This quickly ort off his Imis over overcoat coat cont placed It around the Joy boy and haying down iUt his around aroundhIm hIm and for tor the rest ot of that long cold night kept him beautifully warm The fhe Times TimeR correspondent gives a and explanation ot of the British disaster nt at Nicholsons ens Nek where o of six companies of time the Irish tu U tour four and Il a halt of the regiment anti ond No JO 10 mountain battery surrendered Two hourA before d thIs while the tho column In nn an enclosed country either n a ashot shot was fired or a 1 boulder roiled Il Into the tho battery rho mules stampeded ed and easIly broke brok away troll front their halt hiatt nCI drivers The They came back on the regiment the tho advance alance party ot of whIch fired rO Into the mass be In the tho darkness that It was an anIt It attack This added tb lb tIme tho Time ranks wore broken b by tIme the frenzied animals and th they clashed through the ranks ot of the rear guard carrying the first t and I reserve ammunition animals with thom them It 11 lIec became a hopeless panic The wild with the lime shouting und and the turmoil tore down don tIme tho Into the darkness find and the last that was Vas ot of them item was time the sound ot of million box boxes B and panniers ns as they were splintered the boulders The hubbub ot of those these fes CeW was to have alarmed the enemy B fly strenuous effort the tho ot of succeeded In getting the men agaIn under control and when daylIght canto came they seIzed time the first position whIch and which was about two miles short ot of the orIginal goal were forced to take tago ot of the first kopje lI as Doer Beer scouts were nil around and the dL day was ushered In with desultory firIng It was a sorry position which they I had chosen and the tho men were In a 0 sorry plight All their reer reserve million was vae gone and ond though the they imad saved pieces of at the screw creW guns they were svere not with these pieces to patch up I a single mountIng From earliest daybreak Doer BOer were reconnoitering and about 8 mounted Beers could be seen een gallopIng In small groups to the tho cover ot of the hut hili vest Strong ot of mounted mon men took on the tar SIde ot of the two hIlls commanding the tho kopje from them About 9 there two had crowned time the and opened a heavy lire nt at short range tight might down upon time the plateau Our men made a plucky attempt to return thIs lire but l I was impossible Timey were under a 1 cross Oro firo troll front two directIons flank and rear The two companies ot of holding the F rIdge were driven tram from their shelter and n as they crossed the fhe open on the low plateau were ter rib mauled time the men falling In groups group Time The on the west vest had not yet ct declared themselves but bul about 00 marksmen climbed to tM the 1 the two to e companies ot of the GloU had just The These e emen men raked the plateau and It was that th the men were ordered to take cover on the reverse of th the kopJAs kopjAs As soon oon os as the enemy realized thIn move the men tho ho western westen bill hili teemed onto the summIt and opened upon our men ns as the they lay on the slope 1 be were absolutely hemmed beamed tn In and what had commenced as n a skirmish I seemed med about to become I a butchery The Tho grim order was passed around On your our bay bayonets anti die like men There was WIlS the clatter ot of steel the tho moment ot of suspense and than thon the Cease firing sounded founded Again and again It pounded Bounded but the Irish w tere re to accept time tho call and continued firing for many minutes Then It was unconditional surrender and the nien hlen laid down lown their arm The c correspondent nt at Ladysmith ot of the same samer paper the battle battlefield n field ld of agte realistically do tails tull time the horrors ot of nr nil lie writes The battlefield all as It stood on the tho Sunday Sunda conveyed coned ot of th ot of the fire The wounded had been removed by daylight but th the bur burIal Ial had not nol arrived to perform the tho last duties dulle to time the dead Th The men In lay there thero as they lied hod fallen a sad ad pathetic tribute to the tho courage ot of the British soldier We Wa followed this tragic landers and mounted vol 01 I 11 lay IndIscriminately grouped Than solitary figures under the stones showed how little time the ocr cover avail ed them thein There were places where wire fences fencel had impeded the advance hero Here time the carnage had hUlt been great anti ono one brn bravo vo fellow tello stooped d In death leath out ort off n Its he strove to wl wrench n a post from its lis foundations In the skyline ot of the the dead dond lay Iny thickest there thue being time the main spot where the tho hail had been check mid ed but th the white hag lIag was already there thoro mind strings or of were digging the trench which so often otten Is III the lie soldiers resting place Wo We rode rodo back to time the hoer noer th the little kopje upon which anti and hIs twentythree men had made their last stand Time Tho bodies ot of time the fifteen that hind fallen ot of this little band wore ore grouped ns as hind taken thorn thom tome Some la lay with heads sunken on their rifle stocks lighting to the end An Another other oIlier hind placed his imla hat upon R a neat stone five yards aWn away and hind had died with hIs lingers pressing a 11 charge Into hIs magazine What of tho ho hanger was the tho little of shell fire Tents were torn and burned splIntered and overturned foodstuffs dead horses and explosives lay lu in wrecked profusion There renamed no doubt thAt our shell tire hall hail played upon the position with full effect and one could ont only marvel that time the hears Doers hail stood to their thelt guns so long nut hut ls s one ot Of time the wounded prison ore ers told me inc later Inter In time tho day dur there was waa no room to retreat time the extended tiles ot of the tho regiment overlap overlappIng pIng t the kopje sw sweeping the norU northern ern footpath while the rain or of shrapnel destroyed every living thing on time the western slopes And the II suellO nt at the farni house nestling ot at time the toot the ridge on onI I the bore lt aUn ment It was here thu time tho fl ers had brought their horses fur tor cover cOer and In lily plied pIled on every side The slaughter among the horses must have hae been nl ni most us as heavy heny n as that of bt the tho men Bennett BurleIgh the he Daily Telo Tele Telegraphs graphs war cOI supplies a full tull account ot time the annihIlatIon ot Of the armored train contingent at Chleele when Winston was cup train It appears with the exception ot of time the engine tender and two trucks was badly wrecked by the to re inoval ot of fish plates nail antI time the seventy two men ot of time the DublIn and the men Inca ot of time tho Durban light Infantry to say nothing of t five e blue jackets roam the tho Tartar were thrown out Captain ot of the tho Cordon who the party rallied his imis bruIsed anil shaken men muon and amid n a luau or of bullets from the Boors began to clear time line IIno while others were deadly volleys Into the almost unseen fibers Doers hidden behind th the rocks about 1000 yards ofT Time The blue Jackets bravely command commanded ed cd by their petty were time the incarnation ot of their Into action They sent In two It if not three at th time Doers several hundred ot of whom lined time the hills Hut Just timen thon a shot from time the or orfield field gun un hit th time small naval seven knocking gun and carriage onto the veldt and wounding several of at atthe the seamen But Dut the men were not Il a whit beaten benten The Pall lali Malt Gazettes correspond correspondent emit ent describes con conduct conduct duct on this occasion as follows A party ot of volunteers co Is tI II I principally ot of plate layers etc te led ld b by I ton Churchill who behaved I throughout most r t In placing the thc rails mUs Mr Churchill had previously In InI I carrying In no less than twenty men menI I under n a terrible fire Idea ot of the accuracy J ci this CI fire and nOlt ot of Mr Ir coUrage may be obtained b by thu thit Met that a Boor Boer shell burst In front ot of Mi Churchill killinG two him himon on each ceh sIde ot of him Our wounded were now dotting the tho veldt on each side Ide The Tho continued rifle rillo fire 1110 and time tho sound ot of the guns added te tc the horrors or of time tho situation At last the line lIno was clear and the i with ono one Carriage or of the Iho armored train was enabled l to return to Frere leaving Capt and party fiercely engaged Time The Doers cavi It n a passing salvo ot of shells hit hilt tinS ring the tender and nearly time the train n a second time rite r raily correspondent u n a visit to tIme Hulk leie lope M fit Somers bW Jero the Uler are ma It mathe the tte company ot of C Coh l Stowe towe Ue the United States consul gen writes fht fhe of time the are eJ ad mut They toM told 10 the they thought lIb lb stat b n a that the Natal before tue l rumps nr ar that J England be In foreign nd that they would be able to dictate froit and Durban TI if thuu thought ht to view Ie the tho Cape ns as conquerors conqueror not from rom n a prison ship steps with It In the la Is nearl nearly imea th Jut but hI he un still requires the usi un of DC a Is n a s Ml r of 01 graP ht r l Pd Close clos aggressive military shrewd Cell Il a neck nerk a n lre still active neUve but tending to stoutness As to b bearing he is 18 o n genial nina ot of him world Ho He Introduce Us to some ot of lila brother Including Capt Van n a b Good looking cosmopolitan or of kindly 11 and mo immodest who told u UI h lie was 81 halll born In educated In and bad a sIster in st 51 stLouIs LouIs |
